HOWTO: add description and examples of verify triggers

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 91c307482e1588cec985afb398ffc7f2fa074ee0..89cbb820f1a9196700694127427815922cf55809 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -347,12 +347,6 @@ Seed the random number generators based on this seed value, to be able to
 control what sequence of output is being generated. If not set, the random
 sequence depends on the \fBrandrepeat\fR setting.
 .TP
-.BI use_os_rand \fR=\fPbool
-Fio can either use the random generator supplied by the OS to generate random
-offsets, or it can use its own internal generator (based on Tausworthe).
-Default is to use the internal generator, which is often of better quality and
-faster. Default: false.
-.TP
 .BI fallocate \fR=\fPstr
 Whether pre-allocation is performed when laying down files. Accepted values
 are:
@@ -1179,6 +1173,17 @@ Trim this number of IO blocks.
 .BI experimental_verify \fR=\fPbool
 Enable experimental verification.
 .TP
+.BI verify_state_save \fR=\fPbool
+When a job exits during the write phase of a verify workload, save its
+current state. This allows fio to replay up until that point, if the
+verify state is loaded for the verify read phase.
+.TP
+.BI verify_state_load \fR=\fPbool
+If a verify termination trigger was used, fio stores the current write
+state of each thread. This can be used at verification time so that fio
+knows how far it should verify. Without this information, fio will run
+a full verification pass, according to the settings in the job file used.
+.TP
 .B stonewall "\fR,\fP wait_for_previous"
 Wait for preceding jobs in the job file to exit before starting this one.
 \fBstonewall\fR implies \fBnew_group\fR.
@@ -1471,7 +1476,9 @@ If the job is a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not
 used and must be omitted unless it is a valid UDP multicast address.
 .TP
 .BI (net,netsplice)port \fR=\fPint
-The TCP or UDP port to bind to or connect to.
+The TCP or UDP port to bind to or connect to. If this is used with
+\fBnumjobs\fR to spawn multiple instances of the same job type, then
+this will be the starting port number since fio will use a range of ports.
 .TP
 .BI (net,netsplice)interface \fR=\fPstr
 The IP address of the network interface used to send or receive UDP multicast
@@ -1525,6 +1532,12 @@ completion latency measures how long it took for the other end to receive and
 send back. For UDP multicast traffic pingpong=1 should only be set for a single
 reader when multiple readers are listening to the same address.
 .TP
+.BI (net, window_size) \fR=\fPint
+Set the desired socket buffer size for the connection.
+.TP
+.BI (net, mss) \fR=\fPint
+Set the TCP maximum segment size (TCP_MAXSEG).
+.TP
 .BI (e4defrag,donorname) \fR=\fPstr
 File will be used as a block donor (swap extents between files)
 .TP